How to type Check Mark
To type Check Mark (✓), press Alt + 10003 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ✓ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2713 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2713 on Linux, or 2713 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Check Mark
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2713
- Windows
- Alt + 10003 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 10003 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ✓ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2713 | CHECK MARK |
Other symbols
Check Mark is not the only name it goes by. People look for ✓ as tick and correct as well, and the search box on this site matches any of them, so you do not have to know which name Unicode chose.
✓ lives in the Dingbats block (U+2700-U+27BF), the printer's ornaments from the classic Zapf Dingbats font. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
How to type ✓ in Microsoft Word
In Microsoft Word, type 2713 and press Alt + X. Word reads the four characters before the cursor as a hex codepoint and replaces them, and pressing Alt + X again turns ✓ back into 2713, which is the quickest way to check what a character really is.
What Check Mark is used for
In mathematical notation ✓ is an ordinary symbol: it carries no special spacing and sits in an expression the way a letter does, standing for a thing rather than doing something to the things around it. That is the classification unicode-math gives it, and it is what decides how the symbol is set: $\checkmark$ in LaTeX, in maths mode rather than in a sentence.
What ✓ gets confused with
✓ has lookalikes that are a different character underneath. Search, sorting and anything that compares strings can tell them apart even where a reader cannot.
✔ (U+2714) is the heavy check mark, the same tick drawn thicker.
√ (U+221A) is the square root sign, which is what a tick becomes when a font substitutes.
What Unicode says about Check Mark
The code chart points from ✓ to Square Root, light check mark (U+1F5F8) and inverse check mark (U+1FBB1). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Check Mark looks nearly right but not quite.
How Check Mark behaves in software
✓ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
What people ask about Check Mark
What does the tick symbol mean in maths?
✓ is CHECK MARK, encoded at U+2713. It is distinct from square root (U+221A) and light check mark (U+1F5F8), which the chart lists beside it precisely because they are confused for one another.
What is the correct way to type?
You can press Alt + 10003 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad. That produces ✓.
How to type correct symbol in word?
In Word, type 2713 and press Alt+X, which converts the codepoint you just typed into ✓. Insert › Symbol › More Symbols finds it by its Unicode name, CHECK MARK. Google Docs has no Alt+X, so use Alt + 10003 there, or Insert › Special characters and search the same name.
Every way to write Check Mark
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2713 |
| Decimal | 10003 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 93 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 27 13 |
| HTML entity | ✓ |
| HTML numeric | ✓ or ✓ |
| CSS | \2713 |
| JavaScript | \u2713 |
| Python | \u2713 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%93 |
| LaTeX, in maths mode | $\checkmark$ |
| SVG | 2713.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ✓ arrives as ✓
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 9C 93 read as Windows-1252 gives exactly ✓. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+2713, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.